Description
Originally selected by E.A. Bowles and described by him in “A handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for gardeners” where he said that this was had pale lavender segments with a white tip and purple marks bellow. It is worth mentioning perhaps, that the white tips are very small and slight and hardly noticeable. You really have to know that they exist, to see them, the purple however is very prominent and attractive. Bowles thought that the flower looked like a piece of Wedgewood China when examined closely. He writes that he named it Bobbo “to remind me of the sharp-eyed boy who was the first to spot it”.
The flowers have a pale throat and a lovely, pearlescent exterior when they are closed, opening widely to show their starry shape and pale pastel interior in the rare sunny days of February.
It is a very nice old cultivar with the usual, classic, slender-flowered shape of tommasinianus and leaves which are well developed at flowering time.
First offered by us many years ago and reintroduced to our list in July 2019
